Listening to interesting bits of conversation and hearing witty bits of jargon are always fun. Out here on the rigs though, it isn't always witty, but it is definitely entertaining...

Here are a few of the gems of conversations I have been a part of recently!

NB: In the interests of privacy and what-not, I have referred to individuals as Old Mate, or OM for short.

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OM: Yassmin, did you eat this tub of yoghurt?

Me: mm...yes?

OM: You should keep eating that

Me: mm...why? (Is he going to give me a spiel about the health of my digestive tract? I don't need no inner health plus!)

OM: 'Cos it's the only culture you'll get around here! Haha!

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The following was an interesting conversation that didn't quite turn out the way I was expecting it to! We were watching the news at dinner in the crib room (cafeteria) and something about the PNG solution came on.

Me: Oh this is ridiculous. Don't get me started...

OM: Oh, so this is something you care about hey? Don't get you started hey? Well, tell me, where do you stand on this?

Oh, blimey, here we go I thought - and I launch into a lecture on the UNHCR's process, our obligations under the refugee convention, our responsibility in the world etc etc etc.

Me: So what do you think?

OM: Me? It's pretty simple really. If you want to tell someone you can't come on a boat to this country - who the hell are you to tell someone they can't come? It's not your bloody country anyway! If you're not aboriginal (indigenous) then you came on a bloody boat yourself! We should let them all in I reckon!